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Balik-Manggawa or Returning OFWs

Filipino workers who returned to the Philippines after working abroad for a time need to obtain an overseas employment certificate (OEC) to ensure that they would be registered as a documented overseas Filipino worker (OFW). Read on for guides and information about the processing of returning OFWs or Balik Manggagawa: There are several types of Balik-Manggagawa OFWs (BM-OFWs): Workers-on-Leave - OFWs who are in the Philippines for a short vacation but would return to the same employer overseas and is still under a valid and existing job contract. Re-hires - OFWs who returned to the Philippines after finishing an employment contract overseas but would return to the same foreign employer because they are re-hired. POLO registered workers - These are returning workers whose employment contracts were not processed by POEA, but were verified by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in the jobsite. They would return to the same employer either as a worker-on-leave or re...